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Plasma

goal: A basic panel is there; current work is to flesh it out into a more capable panel system. System tray and taskbar both need work as does a desktop containment with legacy support for the Desktop folder.

howto help: help is always welcome; there are a number of people contributing to plasma already but more help can make things go faster. If you want to help, join the irc channel #plasma or mail to [email protected]

Konqueror

goal: Konqueror must be able to browse the web and to be used as a file manager again, I'm mostly aiming for "no regressions compared to KDE3"

howto help:

Help is most welcome. [email protected] is the place for discussion of both aspects of konqueror development. Web browsing seems in better shape than filemanagement right now, so small tasks are fixing regressions in the webbrowsing-related code in konqueror and its dependencies. For instance there is finally a patch now about fixing the non-working Return key in the location bar URL; I'm sure there's more like that.

Bigger tasks include:

defining a future for the sidebar code (*no showstopper if this is the last item on the list*) -- volunteer(s) needed!

Dolphin

goal: I think Dolphin is in a quite acceptable state now. David Faure and Rafael Fernández López also investigate a lot of time in Dolphin related things so I'm optimistic that Dolphin should be in a good shape for KDE 4.0.

I'm not sure about the state of Nepomuk. Currently the performance is too slow for sorting items by tags or rating. It would be possible to use an internal cache in Dolphin for this, but this would only reduce the time from O(n*log(n)) to O(n) and the problem is n: reading e. g. 30 items takes several seconds... Maybe Sebastian Trüg could need some support. In the worst case I'd suggest to remove the "sort by tags" and "sort by rating" feature in Dolphin for KDE 4.0.

Kate

goal: The KDE 4 version of Kate should at least inlude the known KDE 3 features with additions. We have some new stuff around already but some old is lacking correct porting (beside new introduced bugs). There is a massive need for bugfixing and help getting old stuff back to work, like printing.

howto help:

fix printing Fixed by Anders, 2007-10-20

fix shortcut settings Fixed by mstocker

rendering bugfixes seems to be ok (fixed everything I know), by mstocker

Printing

goal: Printing support working in all applications that can currently print, with print preview and customisable dialogs; no applications depending on libkdeprint, except for the printing kcm

help needed: API is in place: KPrintPreview in kutils and KdePrint::createPrintDialog() in kdeui. Okular has support for printing PS files directly, although this will only work on *NIX platforms (it requires lpr or cups). Basically, all that is left is test, test, test.

Even though defaults.pcm.ipc_gid is set to audio and defaults.pcm.ipc_perm is set to 0660, dmix does not work for more than one user at the same time (both users are in the audio group). A workaround is to set ipc_perm to 0666, but a real fix would be nicer.